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Construction crews put the finishing touches on Veterans Park, formerly Village Pond Park, in Lake Forest on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The renovation includes two fountains, a 1-acre pond, and a 5-pillar monument honoring each branch of the military. The City will hold a grand opening and re-dedication for the 4.7-acre park this Fall.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Construction crews put the finishing touches on Veterans Park, formerly Village Pond Park, in Lake Forest on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The renovation includes two fountains, a 1-acre pond, and a 5-pillar monument honoring each branch of the military. The City will hold a grand opening and re-dedication for the 4.7-acre park this Fall.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Construction crews put the finishing touches on Veterans Park, formerly Village Pond Park, in Lake Forest on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The renovation includes two fountains, a 1-acre pond, and a 5-pillar monument honoring each branch of the military. The City will hold a grand opening and re-dedication for the 4.7-acre park this Fall.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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Construction crews put the finishing touches on Veterans Park, formerly Village Pond Park, in Lake Forest on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The renovation includes two fountains, a 1-acre pond, and a 5-pillar monument honoring each branch of the military. The City will hold a grand opening and re-dedication for the 4.7-acre park this Fall.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Construction crews put the finishing touches on Veterans Park, formerly Village Pond Park, in Lake Forest on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The renovation includes two fountains, a 1-acre pond, and a 5-pillar monument honoring each branch of the military. The City will hold a grand opening and re-dedication for the 4.7-acre park this Fall.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Water is pumped into a 1-acre pond where construction crews put the finishing touches on Veterans Park, formerly Village Pond Park, in Lake Forest on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The renovation includes two fountains, a 1-acre pond, and a 5-pillar monument honoring each branch of the military. The City will hold a grand opening and re-dedication for the 4.7-acre park this Fall.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Construction crews put the finishing touches on Veterans Park, formerly Village Pond Park, in Lake Forest on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The renovation includes two fountains, a 1-acre pond, and a 5-pillar monument honoring each branch of the military. The City will hold a grand opening and re-dedication for the 4.7-acre park this Fall.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The park is getting low fences that will control waterfowls’ access and a butterfly garden, as well as five small pillars commemorating each branches of the military.

The city will also dissuade the park’s visitors from feeding the waterfowls, Volzke said.

“Feeding the wildlife is not good for the park and not really good for the wildlife either,” he said.

It took years for the city initiate renovations of the park as it negotiated with the Lake Forest Community Association, which had maintained the pond. Lake Forest may assume the pond’s maintenance, the city’s director of community services Scott Wasserman said.

The city started much of the park’s renovation in early 2018, and aimed to have the renovation done by the summer. But structural issues, such as replacing deteriorating retaining walls, slowed the project.

Jeong Park covers the inland Orange County cities and communities for The Orange County Register. He was born in Korea but grew up in Southern California, bouncing from Van Nuys to Pomona to Westwood, where he attended UCLA. He spent few months in Indiana as a reporter before coming to the Register. He is always looking for good Asian food, which there are thankfully plenty of in OC.